# AI song generator **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [October 4, 2026, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-song-generator/1033579 "2026-10-04T20:54:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-song-generator/1033579/1 "2026-10-04T20:54:14Z")
Over a hundred years ago James Whitcomb Riley wrote the poem Little Orphant Annie. Just for the fun of it, I pasted the first verse into an AI generator and it came out so well, I wish I had pasted the whole poem in. I think it’s supposed to be a Dolly voice. [It’s amazing, or I’m easily amazed 🙂](https://aisong.io/song/641af659-959a-4220-a016-4a799f44aa7c) ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-song-generator/1033579/2 "2026-10-04T23:46:41Z")
So what are you going to do? Write to the estate of James Whitcomb Riley and tell them you dun gooder? Or publish your version and claim credit and copyright? The magic word is original. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-song-generator/1033579/3 "2026-10-04T23:52:56Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > The magic word is original. And all this time I thought the magic word was please. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-song-generator/1033579/4 "2026-10-05T00:07:33Z")
And what is what you want such that “please” will get it done? ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-song-generator/1033579/5 "2026-10-05T00:48:05Z")
Please is just another word for nothing left to lose. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-song-generator/1033579/6 "2026-10-05T01:28:53Z")
“I ask for nothing, Master!” “And you shall receive it, IN _ABUNDANCE_” ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-song-generator/1033579/7 "2026-10-05T02:11:00Z")
“I want…” “Then want’s your portion.” ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-song-generator/1033579/8 "2026-10-05T02:57:52Z")
It is getting pretty scary how good AI is at this kind of thing these days. I read Gene Weingarten’s Substack, and he’d written a poem about a certain president, which he fed into an AI music generator. I didn’t notice at first that the melody was AI, and was impressed that one of his fans had set his poem to music. As a writer, I don’t like where this is going. I want my art to be created by humans, not machines.